The proliferation of copycat APPs is still being rebranded and reborn. The root cause of rampant pirated APPs is cost and price.
A large number of studies have found that pirated APPs emerge one after another and the experience is relatively poor, but there are still countless consumer groups. This phenomenon occurs mainly because of low prices. For merchants who make pirated APPs, they do not need to hire designers and other personnel at high prices. They only need to study an APP and modify it to varying degrees. This saves time and cost. Time is money. For consumers, genuine APPs are beyond what people can afford, so consumers generally admit that they tend to use pirated APPs.
The use of pirated APP is a way of showing disrespect for property rights. In Chinese people's minds, people are relatively deficient in protecting intellectual property rights. Everyone is pursuing economical benefits, but in the end they return to low prices. Under the temptation of price, people choose to abandon moral constraints and enjoy the current economic benefits first. If it were me, I would also choose a cheap pirated APP.
Although the effect of using pirated apps is worse than that of genuine apps, after all, it is a different approach to the same goal. China is also relatively weak in cracking down on pirated apps. It can even be said that China has complete laws and regulations in this regard, so many people will choose to speculate. Maybe using the word speculation is a bit too much. After all, pirated apps are also labor-intensive.
Still returning to the price issue, genuine APPs have costs for preliminary research, development, design, publicity, etc., but the costs are really high. It is the high usage fees that give pirated apps room to survive and invisibly suppress their own market. Therefore, when we set product price, we must set the price reasonably.